Us FDA warned electronic cigarette manufacturers to prevent teenagers from using them or stop selling them.

Prior to this, on August 30, Chinas General Administration of Market Supervision and Administration and the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau issued a Notice on the Prohibition of the Sale of Electronic Cigarettes to Minors (news link: https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2432540), saying that minors smoking electronic cigarettes posed major health and safety risks. It is suggested that the e-commerce platform remove the electronic cigarette products containing the words students and minors, strengthen the examination and control of the names of the electronic cigarette products on the shelves, and take effective measures to shield the relevant keywords and not show the electronic cigarette products to minors.

Last year, the FDA encouraged the e-cigarette industry to develop more products to help adults quit smoking, Bloomberg reported Sept. 13. In July 2017, the FDA said it was considering reducing nicotine levels in cigarettes and agreed to postpone the deadline for e-cigarette manufacturers to apply for FDA licenses until 2022.

But data show that the number of teenagers smoking e-cigarettes is soaring, casting a shadow on any potential benefits of e-cigarettes for adults. Critics say the FDA has not taken enough steps to prevent teenagers from smoking electronic cigarettes when it develops products for adults to quit smoking.

In a warning letter sent by the FDA, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, FDA director, explained: I think certain flavors are one of the main drivers of these e-cigarettes to attract teenagers. While we are still committed to promoting policies that tap the potential of e-cigarettes and help adult smokers quit cigarettes, this cannot be done at the expense of children. We cant let new generation become addicted to nicotine. ?

The warning letters, covering five e-cigarette brands, including Juul, Vuse, Mark Ten, BluE-cigs and Logic, asked them to submit a plan within 60 days detailing how to prevent teenagers from using their products.

The FDA further said it would consider requiring the companies to modify their sales and marketing strategies, stop wholesaling products to some retailers, or even stop selling some or all of their flavored e-cigarettes until the problem was resolved.

It is reported that Juul electronic cigarette products only pocket size, shape design like computer USB, with a variety of tobacco products catering to the taste of teenagers, is currently popular among student groups.

The FDAs announcement said that new electronic cigarette products, as alternatives to cigarettes, not only cause nicotine addiction, but also have adverse effects on the brain development of adolescents. At the same time, the FDA is ready to take a tougher approach to electronic cigarette control to prevent the spread of the epidemic of e-smoking among teenagers.

In an interview with Bloomberg, FDA Health and Public Services Minister Alex Azar said that as a father, he was very supportive of the FDAs actions. I also have kids at home, and were all worried that Juul and other e-cigarettes are on campus, and we cant allow that to happen.

In fact, on the attraction and harm of electronic cigarettes to teenagers, domestic tobacco controllers have repeatedly appealed to relevant departments to take effective measures to prevent.

On August 30, the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration and the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau issued a Notice on Prohibiting the Sale of Electronic Cigarettes to Minors, saying that stationery stores near primary and secondary schools in some areas now sell electronic cigarettes to students, and some electronic commerce platforms also have student electronic cigarettes for sale and wholesale.

Notice pointed out that Chinas national standards for e-cigarettes have not yet been formally promulgated, the quality of e-cigarettes on the market is uneven, most of the core consumer components of e-cigarettes are purified nicotine, nicotine, minors inhaled such aerosols, will have adverse effects on lung function, improper use may also lead to nicotine Poisoning and other safety risks.

To this end, the Circular stipulates that market participants shall not sell e-cigarettes to minors, and suggests that e-commerce platforms remove e-cigarette products containing the words students and minors from their shelves, deduct points or close stores for relevant stores (sellers), and at the same time strengthen the examination and control of the names of e-cigarette products on shelves. Effective measures should be taken to screen related keyword and not to display electronic cigarette products to minors. The circular also calls for market supervision departments at all levels and tobacco monopoly administrative departments to further strengthen market supervision over e-cigarette products and, in conjunction with special actions such as comprehensive management around schools, to urge all types of market entities not to sell e-cigarettes to minors, and to violate various types of production and sale of three-nothing e-cigarettes. Legal acts should be investigated and punished in time according to law; schools and families should strengthen the education and protection of minors, emphasizing the harm of electronic cigarettes to their health; the media should strengthen the propaganda of minorssmoking, including the harm of electronic cigarettes to their health; and any organizations and individuals should dissuade and stop the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors. The source of this article: surging news editor: Luo Jiazhen _NBJS6445

The circular also calls for market supervision departments at all levels and tobacco monopoly administrative departments to further strengthen market supervision over e-cigarette products and, in conjunction with special actions such as comprehensive management around schools, to urge all types of market entities not to sell e-cigarettes to minors, and to violate various types of production and sale of three-nothing e-cigarettes. Legal acts should be investigated and punished in time according to law; schools and families should strengthen the education and protection of minors, emphasizing the harm of electronic cigarettes to their health; the media should strengthen the propaganda of minorssmoking, including the harm of electronic cigarettes to their health; and any organizations and individuals should dissuade and stop the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors.